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Archival still images

Historic street scenes, family life, travel and everyday details captured on film. Explore individual frames, check the source footage and license the image you need for $49. Each still page lists its download size and permitted uses.

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White frame resort hotel and beach pavilion among autumn trees above the bay beach at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, from 8mm home movie film.

White frame resort buildings above the beach at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, with autumn colour in the trees.

1963 · Betterton, Maryland, United States

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Three-storey white hotel behind a dark-roofed pavilion on the Betterton, Maryland waterfront in fall colour, circa 1963, 8mm film still.

The three-storey white hotel and the pavilion below it, Betterton waterfront, circa 1963.

1963 · Betterton, Maryland, United States

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Off-season Chesapeake Bay shore at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963: white wooden resort buildings and a gabled hotel half hidden by autumn trees.

An empty beach and resort buildings in autumn at Betterton on the upper Chesapeake Bay, circa 1963.

1963 · Betterton, Maryland, United States

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Sunlit white frame hotel and pavilion above an empty beach in Betterton, Kent County, Maryland, circa 1963, with tall bare and autumn-coloured trees.

Empty sand below the white frame hotel and pavilion at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963.

1963 · Betterton, Maryland, United States

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1963 Lucerne street view with pedestrians near an ornate facade, arched storefronts, and a small parked car.

Pedestrians pass an ornate Lucerne building facade with arched shop windows.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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Closer 1963 Lucerne view of a decorated building entrance beside arched storefront windows with visible signage.

The camera zooms toward the carved entrance and adjacent shopfronts.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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Underexposed 1963 Lucerne street view showing tall building silhouettes and a bright sky gap above the street.

Building silhouettes frame a bright opening above the street.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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Dark 8mm frame from Lucerne with roofline silhouette, faint windows, and pale sky dominating the upper view.

The exposure drops as rooflines and upper walls become silhouettes.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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1963 Lucerne street view with a man below a traditional building, hanging flags, parked cars, and a PANORAMA sign.

A pedestrian passes beneath decorated Lucerne building facades and street signage.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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1963 Lucerne street view with pedestrians, old-town facades, hotel signage, and a red neon corner light in 8mm color footage.

Pedestrians pass through a narrow Lucerne street lined with hotel and shop signs.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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Lucerne old-town facades in 1963, with hanging signs, flags, hotel lettering, windows, and a partially framed street view.

Hanging signs and flags appear above a narrow street of older Lucerne buildings.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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1963 Lucerne street frontage showing flags above a building entrance, parked mid-century cars, and older hotel architecture.

Flags fly above a hotel frontage while cars are parked along the street.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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Lucerne street corner in 1963 with pedestrians, a Panorama sign, parked cars, stone facade, and flags near a building entrance.

Pedestrians pass a building entrance marked Panorama on a Lucerne street corner.

1963 · Lucerne, Switzerland

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1939 Washington home-movie frame showing a large masonry structure with rooftop framework seen from a moving vehicle.

Drive-by view of a large historic-looking structure with metal framework above the roofline.

1939 · Washington, United States

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Black-and-white 8mm frame from Washington showing a large structure with railings and rooftop metal framework.

The moving camera passes a broad building facade with railings and a metal structure on top.

1939 · Washington, United States

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1939 Washington travel frame showing a low roofline, distant hill, and roadside structure in black-and-white 8mm.

A low section of the structure and hillside pass through the frame during the drive-by.

1939 · Washington, United States

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Black-and-white 8mm frame showing a curved wall or dam-like structure near water in Washington, 1939.

A curved retaining wall or waterfront structure appears as the moving viewpoint passes the site.

1939 · Washington, United States

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1959 Gibraltar home-movie frame showing the Rock rising above white waterfront buildings and coastal terrain.

The Rock of Gibraltar towers over low waterfront buildings in a blue-tinted 8mm frame.

1959 · Gibraltar

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1959 Gibraltar frame with hillside buildings at the base of the Rock and soft blue 8mm color.

Buildings sit below the steep rock face in a visitor-shot view of Gibraltar.

1959 · Gibraltar

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Gibraltar waterfront and hillside structures appear beneath the Rock in this 1959 8mm travel-film frame.

White buildings line the lower slope above the water, with the Rock rising behind them.

1959 · Gibraltar

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1959 Gibraltar frame showing coastal water, pale walls, waterfront buildings, and the rocky base of the Rock.

The shoreline and built-up lower slopes of Gibraltar are seen across the water.

1959 · Gibraltar

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1964 Saint Louis street view with a woman passing a Centennial booth, posters, storefronts, and a parked mid-century car.

A woman walks beside the Centennial booth on a downtown Saint Louis sidewalk.

1964 · Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

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Saint Louis Centennial booth seen from the street, with civic posters, tall buildings, cars, and a woman partly visible at right.

The camera frames the Centennial booth with downtown buildings and street traffic behind it.

1964 · Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

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Close street-level view of the Centennial booth top, with 1764-1964 signage, building facades, awnings, and streetlights.

The booth's Centennial banner fills the frame against downtown building facades.

1964 · Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

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